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Newspaper
Elgin Echo
Location
Elgin, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1929
Page
3
A column mocks corn whiskey claiming it will stain or ruin every garment and degrade manners and health. It then reports V. O. Figge of Des Moines, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred J. Figge of Ossian, returning from a three week Arizona hunt with Dr. F. H. Fillenworth of Charles City, alongside guide Jack Butler of popular sports magazines.
A Nutritional feature by Miss Rubyn China for the National Dairy Council promotes a balanced dinner. It recommends green vegetables and salad alongside meat and starch, with recipes including Potatoes Escalloped with Ham and Tomato Aspic. The menu covers steps from preparation to baking and serving, emphasizing taste and health.
The passage emphasizes that the community store, center, and spirit sustain local welfare and progress. It argues merchants and residents together shape life, responsibilities, and continuity of the community storefront.
McGregors three silver fox and fur ranches Fred Kersten Clair Limbeck and Al Stevens are busy as pelting season opens. The operations will likely pelt about 125 silver fox along with mink vad fox rabbit and coon in preparation for the holiday fur trade.
The article explains how egg production varies with seasons and protein intake. It notes eggs contain 13.4 percent protein and poultry flesh 21.5 percent, and warns that winter protein deficiency lowers egg yield. It suggests high protein mash ingredients like meat scraps and soybean meal and mentions barge season ended November 11 with two boats on their last trip.
Push the button and the motor does the work as modern dairies install McCormick Deering electric driven cream separators. Equipment reduces labor by automating cream separation with electric power for efficient processing.
Ray Anderson Cedar Rapids Gazette farm editor announces a 4-H club day in Cedar Rapids Friday November 29 hosted by the Gazette. About 500 boys attended last year with 40 from Fayette County this year and roughly 20 already chosen. Transportation and meals including show and banquet at noon furnished by the Gazette. Between 500 and 600 attendees from 15 or 16 counties expected. Entire Fayette quota of 40 boys likely to travel. Also notices of visits by Mrs. C L Huisinga and family from Aplington and Mrs. H S Steele and Kathleen visiting Dubuque. Mrs. Carl Bauman from Grand Rapids Michigan, visiting Ern Baechler home.
A jumble of notices and anecdotes recounts dinner guests at Hana Keiser’s home, a bold radio promo tease about Corona, and a Fargo hunter paying 8200 for birds. Officials intercept an alcohol transport guise as birds are seized. license ties to a temporary Fargo stay. The page blends social items with odd crime-like details from North Dakota and Iowa.
For weeks Serogum Fish & Ice Co. ships about 3000 pounds of dogfish weekly to the eastern market. They plan to continue marketing the fish until the river freezes, a shift from past practices when fishermen discarded them. Most catch heads to Philadelphia North Jews.
The dirt road project between Postville and McGregor was finished last week and is now open. A small gap remains in Lisna pavement, slated for spring completion. Gamble Stores in Oelwein Iowa advertises farm plant batteries with ten months to pay and a $10 allowance on old batteries.
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